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Wampanoag, n. and a.|wɑːmpəˈnəʊəg|
Also † Wampanong, -noug.
[a. Narragansett, lit. ‘easterners’.]
A. n. (A member of) an Indian people of south-eastern Massachusetts and the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this people.
1676R. Williams Let. 1 Apr. in B. F. Swan Copy of Let. of R. Williams (1971) 11 God has prospered us so that wee had had driven the Wampanoogs with Phillip out of his Countrie. 1782‘J. H. St. John de Crèvecœur’ Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 144 Those powerful tribes..the..Massachusets, Wamponougs, Nipnets, Tarranteens, &c. 1820Eastburn & Sands Yamoydan (1834) i. 16 The Wampanoag from the height Of Haup, who strained his anxious sight [etc.]. 1871C. M. Yonge Pioneers & Founders i. 25 The Sachem nearest to Plymouth had been at the first arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers, Massasoiet, chief of the Wampanongs. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 903/2 Wampanoag... One of the principal tribes of New England. Their proper territory appears to have been the peninsula on the E. shore of Narragansett bay now included in Bristol co., R.I., and the adjacent parts in Bristol co., Mass. 1948Sat. Even. Post 26 June 23/3 The township of Dartmouth had been purchased from Chief Massasoit, of the Wampanoag tribe. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 642 There's also the Wampanoag Indian Museum. 1980Smithsonian Aug. 22 Red Wing's museum has some nice relics from early days when the Wampanoags & Narragansets..& Mohegans & Nipmucs ranged around southern New England. 1983Times 3 Oct. 3/4 (caption) Slow Turtle, of the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts, at a ceremony on Hounslow Heath yesterday. |